gender

Question 1

inside factors 1

Answer 1

Education reform act - introduction of coursework - introduction of the national curriculum meant for the first time boys and girls were entitled to have the same education

Question 2

inside factors 2

Answer 2

GIST and WISE - from the 1970s teacher training has changed and teachers believe it is important to develop in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago

exam questions, textbooks and classroom language has changed ti include and recognise girls so that girls now see education as an institution for them

Question 3

inside factor 3

Answer 3

jackson - laddets and negative labelling

Question 4

inside 4

Answer 4

mitos and browne - use statistics on achievement to argue that boys are underachieving in the education system yet they also believe that girls are disadvantaged through their subject choices and life choices